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      1. 1. Two callers during this excellent @SandyDarity interview on CSPAN asked "what about soldiers who died during the Civil War?" Let's look into that ... c-span.org/video/?458905-4/washington-journal-william-darity-discusses-reparations-campaign-2020
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      2. The federal government DID extend pensions to the families of Union veterans who died. But when formerly enslaved people, led by Callie House, used that as a model to pursue pensions in the 1890s, they faced aggressive harassment from federal officials.
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    3. For more about the courageous efforts of Callie House and others to argue for "ex-slave" pensions, see @DrMFBerry's book "My Face is Black is True" and this helpful article by Miranda Booker Perry: archives.gov/publications/prologue/2010/summer/slave-pension.html
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